Travis Anderson is a member of the Labor and Employment and
Business Trial practice groups in the firm’s San Diego (Del Mar) office.
Anderson defends employers against various types of employment-related
claims, including wrongful termination, whistleblower actions,
discrimination, harassment, pay stub claims, wage and hour claims, and
contract actions. Anderson also prosecutes and defends actions involving
trade secret claims, unfair competition, and enforcement of restrictive
covenants and non-competes. He represents clients in commercial
disputes, such as fraud, breach of contract, defamation, unfair
competition, and corporate deadlock and dissolution proceedings.
Anderson received a J.D., magna cum laude, Order of the Coif,
from the University of San Diego School of Law in 2009 and a B.A., universali
cum honore,from Washington University in St. Louis in 2005.

Townsend Bourne is a member of the Government Contracts,
Investigations, and International Trade practice group in the firm’s
Washington, D.C. office. Bourne handles complex litigation in connection
with the Contract Disputes Act and the False Claims Act, bid protest
actions before the GAO and Court of Federal Claims, claims litigation
before the Boards of Contract Appeals, investigating and preparing
contractor claims, and conducting internal investigations. She also
regularly advises clients on compliance with government regulations
relating to cybersecurity, the GSA Schedule program, subcontracts and
teaming agreements, procurement integrity, and organizational conflicts
of interest. She received a J.D., cum laude, from George Mason
University School of Law in 2009 and a B.A., summa cum laude,from
Vanderbilt University in 2006.

Michael Chilleen is a member of the Business Trial practice group
in the firm’s Orange County office. Chilleen specializes in class action
defense and disability access discrimination claims under the Americans
With Disabilities Act and California state accessibility standards. He
represents large corporations, including Starbucks, Ralphs, Food 4 Less,
Taco Bell, Home Depot, KFC, the City of Riverside, Little Caesar’s
Pizza, Live Nation, Regal Entertainment Group, and more, with respect to
disability access claims. Chilleen has extensive trial experience,
having tried more than 30 cases to verdict, including several class
actions. He received a J.D. from New York Law School in 2000 and a B.A.
from Tulane University in 1996.

John Edson is a member of the Business Trial practice group in
the firm’s San Diego office. Edson represents insurance companies
throughout California that are sued for bad faith, fraud and unfair
competition. He specializes in suspicious auto and homeowner claims. He
also provides coverage opinions, conducts examinations under oath, and
helps clients with drafting insurance policies and applications. His
clients include Wawanesa, Allstate, Infinity and Travelers. Edson
received a J.D. from the University of California, Berkeley School of
Law in 1996, a M.A. from Harvard University in 1995 and a B.A. from the
University of California, San Diego in 1992.

Harris Gao is a member of the Intellectual Property, Business
Trial and Corporate practice groups in the firm’s Shanghai office. Gao
focuses his practice on international IP litigation and technology
transactions in the technology and life sciences areas, and he is
particularly active in assisting Chinese companies and investors in
strategic investments and acquisitions overseas for acquiring critical
technologies. Gao received a J.D. from Columbia University in 2002, a
M.S. from Catholic University of America in 1997 and a B.S. from
Tsinghua University in 1994.

Aaron George is a member of the Business Trial practice group in
the firm’s Washington, D.C. office. He has represented clients in
complex business litigation and technical regulatory matters before
diverse decision-making authorities, including federal and state courts
and administrative tribunals, and at all levels from trial through
appeal. These high-stakes commercial disputes and matters have involved
statutory, constitutional, communications, privacy, energy,
environmental, and administrative law issues. He has special expertise
representing communications companies in matters involving state and
local franchising, access to rights-of-way, franchise fees, privacy,
public access programming, pole attachments, infrastructure deployment,
and a host of related issues. He received a J.D., Order of the Coif,
from Vanderbilt University Law School in 2008 and a B.A. from Emory
University in 2001.

Katarzyna ("Kathy") Levecke is a member of the Real
Estate, Land Use and Environmental practice group in the firm's Chicago
office. Levecke concentrates her practice on commercial lending
transactions, leasing and tax credit transactions, primarily in the
renewable energy sector. Levecke has represented numerous developers,
debt and equity investors, lessors and lessees in financing and leasing
matters. Her experience includes negotiation and due diligence of key
project documents and structuring and negotiation of debt and equity
investment documents. Levecke received a J.D., summa cum laude,
in 2008 and a B.A., with highest honors, in 2005 from DePaul
University.

Robert Mussig is a member of the Labor & Employment practice
group in the firm’s Los Angeles office. Mussig defends employers in wage
and hour class actions and also against claims of discrimination,
harassment and wrongful termination. He has handled virtually all
aspects of the litigation process, including jury and bench trials,
arbitrations and appeals. He also advises employers on compliance with
local, state and federal employment laws and conducts trainings on a
variety of employment law-related topics. Mussig received a J.D. in 2005
and a B.A. in 2001 from the University of California, Berkeley.

Justine Phillips is a member of Sheppard Mullin’s Labor and
Employment practice group and the Privacy & Cybersecurity team in the
firm's San Diego office. Phillips focuses her practice on cybersecurity
and employment litigation and counseling. Her representations involve
every aspect of cybersecurity, such as handling risk mitigation,
incident preparedness and response, conducting privileged technical
assessments and investigations, liaising with law enforcement and
information governance, conducting diligence in
acquisitions/investments, drafting incident response plans, conducting
breach simulations, preparing consumer and state notices, responding to
regulators, and defending companies in litigation relating to cyber
events. As an employment attorney, she handles all aspects of daily
employment matters including advice and litigation on lawful hiring
practice, leaves of absence, background checks, drug testing,
terminations, and theft of company data. Phillips is a native San Diegan
and received her J.D., magna cum laude, from the University of
San Diego Law School in 2005 and a B.A. in 1999 from the University of
San Diego.

Tamar Rosenberg is a member of the Tax, Employee Benefits, and
Trust & Estates practice group in the firm's New York office. Rosenberg
has specialized expertise in laws governing nonprofit corporate and
tax-exempt organizations and advises on both compliance and
transactional matters. She has represented a wide range of
organizations, including hospitals, nursing homes, health plans and
other healthcare organizations, as well as universities, research
institutes, private foundations, religious organizations, trade
associations, environmental conservation organizations, arts
organizations, museums, news media organizations and other nonprofits.
She also advises for-profit businesses in their dealings with nonprofit
organizations. Rosenberg received a J.D. from New York University School
of Law in 2003 and a B.A., magna cum laude, from the University
of Pennsylvania in 2000.

Michael Roth is a member of the Real Estate, Land Use and
Environmental practice group in the firm’s Chicago office. Roth
concentrates his practice on commercial and residential real estate
development throughout the United States, including construction and
design contracts, lending and finance, and sales and acquisitions. He
has significant experience representing owners and contractors in
negotiating design and construction contracts and has represented
numerous local and institutional lenders and borrowers in connection
with acquisition and construction financing. He has a particular
expertise in hospitality transactions, representing developers, owners
and management companies on all aspects of hotel projects. Roth received
a J.D. from Washington University School of Law in 2004 and a B.A. from
Truman State University in 1998.

Ericka Jacobs Schulz is a member of the Intellectual Property
practice group in the firm's San Diego (Del Mar) office. Schulz
represents clients in patent, trademark, copyright and trade secret
litigation disputes, as well as patent and trademark portfolio
counseling, and due diligence. She has considerable trial experience
throughout the United State and in patent venues, such as Texas,
Delaware, New Jersey and California district courts, and the
International Trade Commission. She is a registered patent attorney with
the USPTO. Schulz represents clients in technical fields, including
electrical, software, telecommunications, wireless devices, networking,
optics, mechanical, blockchain, medical devices, and dentistry. Schulz
received a J.D. from the University of San Diego School of Law in 2006,
a M.S. in Electrical Engineering from California Polytechnic State
University - San Luis Obispo in 2000, and a B.S. in Electrical
Engineering from California Polytechnic State University - San Luis
Obispo in 1999.

Robert Wernli is a member of the Corporate practice group in the
firm's San Diego (Del Mar) office. Wernli has a broad transactional
practice with three main areas of focus: securities, mergers and
acquisitions, and joint ventures and strategic alliances. Wernli advises
clients on all aspects of SEC reporting and listing exchange compliance
matters, corporate governance and general corporate law matters, drawing
from both law firm experience and in-house experience, having served as
Vice President of a NYSE-listed company in charge of securities law
compliance. He has worked on many M&A transactions, representing clients
in a broad array of industries. Wernli also drafts and negotiates
complex partnership and LLC agreements that are customary for joint
venture and project finance transactions. He received a J.D., magna
cum laude, from the University of San Diego School of Law in 2002
and a B.A., cum laude, from the University of California, San
Diego in 1998.

Cheng Xu is a member of the Corporate practice group in
the firm's Shanghai office. Xu’s practice focuses on private
equity/venture capital, mergers and acquisitions, as well as general
corporate and business law across a wide range of industry sectors,
including e-commerce, mobile internet, high technology solutions, social
media and gaming, healthcare, and the online to offline platform (and
the sharing economy in particular). Xu advises international private
equity firms, strategic investors and emerging companies through all
spectrums of growth from offshore and onshore incorporation and multiple
rounds of financing, to corporate governance issues and other day-to-day
corporate matters. She provides practical and sensible advice that
enables clients to successfully navigate the complex landscape
surrounding the intersection of Western and Eastern business practices
and ideals. Xu received LL.M.s from New York University School of Law
and National University of Singapore, a J.D. from Ohio State University
and a B.A. from Johns Hopkins University.

Lai Yip is a member of the Intellectual Property practice group
in the firm's San Francisco and Palo Alto offices. Yip serves as
co-leader of the firm’s China Intellectual Property team. She is an
experienced intellectual property litigator, handling a broad range of
complex disputes, including high-stakes litigation regarding FRAND
(fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory) licensing of
standard-essential patents (SEP), trademark infringement, and trade
secret misappropriation. Her litigation experience covers all major
aspects of the life cycle of a case, including dispositive motion
practice, trial, post-trial proceedings, appeal, and enforcement of
judgments. Yip received a J.D. from Boston University in 2008 and a B.A.
from the University of California at Berkeley in 2000. She also studied
abroad at the Faculty of Law at the University of Hong Kong in 2007.

Michael Zhang is a member of the Corporate, Antitrust and
Intellectual Property practice groups in the firm's Shanghai office.
Zhang represents U.S. and European clients with respect to mergers and
acquisitions, joint venture projects and operations in China and other
regions of Asia. Zhang has represented leading Chinese companies in
their outbound equity and asset transactions outside mainland China,
primarily in the pharmaceutical, e-commerce and green technology
industries. He counsels U.S. and international clients, as well as local
Chinese companies on international and PRC antitrust issues. Zhang also
handles IP licensing, IP due diligence and corporate IP protection
within M&A transactions and joint venture projects. Zhang received a
LL.B. from the Law School of Shanghai University of International
Business and Economics.

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